They rarely eat meat once a week, and never oftener, and then only the hard dry charqui.

The miners who work in the mine itself have twenty-five shillings per month, and are allowed a little charqui.

A few maize cobs and a strip or two of charqui was all the travelling store in the scrips his pilgrims carried.

Sometimes it was merely cut in strips, roughly rubbed with brine, and hung in the sun to dry into charqui, or jerked beef.

Charqui; hence, probably, says McCulloh, the term "jerked," applied to the dried beef of South America.

"And we shall neither have CHARQUI, nor hard eggs, nor fillets of ostrich?"